Presented on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at the Quarry Farm Barn. David H Fears has had a lifetime interest in Mark Twain. He has also written nearly one hundred short stories with about sixteen published, and four novels, one published by Amazon. Fears is a pretty handy name for horror stories, but he also focuses on mainstream nostalgic, literary, hard-boiled mystery and some fantasy-magical realism. For the past five years, David has devoted his full time to producing
Mark Twain Day By Day, a three volume annotated chronology of the life of Samuel L. Clemens. Two volumes are now available and have been called “The Ultimate Mark Twain Reference” by top Twain scholars. His aim for these books is “to provide a reference and starting-off place for the Twain scholar, as well as a readable book for the masses,” one that provides many “tastes” of Twain and perspectives into his complex and fascinating life.
David Fears shares his experiences compiling his massive work -- an accounting of the daily life and times of Mark Twain. For the past five years, Mr. Fears has devoted himself to producing Mark Twain Day By Day, a three volume annotated chronology of the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Fears’ aim for these books has been “to provide a reference and starting-off place for the Twain scholar, as well as a readable book for the masses,” one that provides many “tastes” of Twain and perspective into his complex and fascinating life. The focus of this talk centers on Fears’ research efforts to determine the exact date of Rudyard Kipling’s visit to Quarry Farm in the summer of 1889 -- a date heretofore variously referred to as occurring in the “summer of 1889” (Paine), or as “July or August,” or “one hot August morning” in 1889 (Baetzhold).
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